Does it occur to people who engage in these sorts of “worries” that from the outside it just looks like changing the subject so as to avoid making any real changes. Does it occur to them that this looks just like the tactics conservatives use to attack anything that might make society a little better? “Expanding health insurance would be good for people. Death Panels!!” “Making it harder to buy guns would reduce gun deaths. Tyranny!!” “Not cutting food stamps would prevent hunger, even starvation for millions. Greece!!” “A civil philosophical climate would help prevent such a bad climate for women. Re-education!!”

It would be interesting to find out what parallells there are between the demographics of those expressing these concerns and the demographics of the Tea Party — it’s probably a safe bet that they are predominantly older white men. But then in a profession that is almost all men and all white that probably does not mean much…